Schedule of the Talks
Day 1
September 28
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Refreshment
09:00 - 10:00
Inauguration 10:00 - 11:00
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Former Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
11:00-11:25
Inaugural Talk by President, Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India
Prof. Vinod Kumar C.S.
Technical Session 1: Phage therapy, Isolation to administration
11:30-11:55
Phage Therapy in Belgium
Dr. Jean Paul Pirnay
12:00 - 12:25
Elevating Alternatives: Paving the Way for Mainstream Adoption of phage therapy
Dr. Ranga Reddy Burri
12:30 - 12:55
Phage Antibiotic Synergy in Patient Cases of Phage Therapy facilitated by the Queen Astrid Military Hosptial
Dr. Sabreena Green
Lunch 13:00 - 14:00
14:00-14:25
09:30-09:55 (GMT +1)
Genetically Modified Bacteriophages for Efficient Bacterial Killing
Dr. Antonia Sagona (Virtual)
14:30-14:55
12:00-12:25 (GMT +3)
Phage Therapy Initiative in Finland
Prof. Mikael Skurnik (Virtual)
15:00-15:25
Recent trends in Bacteriophage Therapy
Dr. Ramesh N.
15:30-15:55
Phage Therapy: Challenges and Triumphs in the Quest for Precision treatment
Prof. Sanjay Chibber
16:00-16:25
From Lab to Market: Ensuring safety in phage therapy products through regulatory compliance
Dr. C. Sheela Sasikumar
Tea Break 16:30 - 16:55
Technical Session 2: Regulations, Guidelines and Protocols for Phage therapy
17:00-17:25
21:30 - 21:55 (GMT + 10)
Creating systems for safely scale phage therapy, from Phage Directory to Phage Australia
Dr. Jessica Sacher (Virtual)
17:30-17:55
22:00 - 20:25 (GMT + 10)
Paving the way to Precision: Therapeutic phage monitoring fo improved dosage in phage therapy
Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan (Virtual)
18:00-18:25
Preventing Klebsiella Urinary Tract Infections with Phage cocktails: Just One More Experiment
Dr. Eleanor Jameson
18:30-18:45
Microfluidics and Robotics enabling Phage Research (Sponsor talk from Beckman Coulter)
18:45-19:00
15:15-15:30 (GMT+2)
Manufacturing Perspective: Road from Isolation of 1 phage, to routine production of highly pure 1E16 phages (per one batch)
Dr. Frenk Smrekar (Jafral)
19:00-19:15
Sponsor Talk (Life Cell)
Technical Session 3: Phages for Food Preservations: Formulation, Application and Regulation
(Parallel Session with Session 2)
17:00-17:25
07:30 - 07:55 (GMT - 4)
Unlocking the power of phages as bio-sanitizer and bio-preservative agents to enhance food safety
Dr. Hany Anany (Virtual)
17:30-17:55
13:00 - 13:25 (GMT + 1)
The potential role of bacteriophages in Salmonella diversity, disease and control
Dr. Janet Nale (Virtual)
18:00-18:25
13:30 - 13:55 (GMT + 1)
Advanced manufacturing, formulation and delivery of bacteriophages
Prof. Danish Malik (Virtual)
18:30-18:55
09:00 - 09:25 (GMT - 4)
Using Computer vision to accelerate common bacteriophage petri dish assays with OnePetri
Michael Shamash (Virtual)
Day 2
September 29
Technical Session 4: Biotechnological Applications of Bacteriophages
08:00-08:25
12:30 - 12:55 (GMT + 10)
Using Synthetic biology to understand and improve phages
Dr. Paul Jaschke (Virtual)
08:30-08:55
Phage Display: A powerful technique and its applications
Prof. Amita Gupta
09:00-09:25
Phage Therapy to modulate MDR infections in veterinary science
Dr. Taruna Anand
Tea Break 09:30 - 09:55
Panel Discussion: Interfacing Translational Bacteriophage Research, and Student Session Coordinated by Prof. Vinod Kumar C.S.
10:00 - 10:55
Technical Session 5: Fundamentals of Bacteriophage Research and Establishing Phage Bank
11:00-11:25
Novel Infection Strategies of Jumbo Bacteriophages
Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan
11:30-11:55
15:00 - 15:25 (GMT + 9)
Co-occurrence and synergism of anti-phage defense systems
Dr. Franklin Nobrega (Virtual)
12:00-12:25
07:30 - 07:55 (GMT + 1)
The Citizen Phage Library: A global network of phage hubs providing phage therapeutics to combat antibiotic resistance through Citizen Science
Dr. Ben Temperton (Virtual)
Lunch 12:30 - 13:25
Technical Session 6: Marine phages: Diversity, nutrient recycling, bioprospecting and biofouling control
13:30-13:55
Preserving Oceanic Symphony: Unraveling the Indispensable Role of Marine Bacteriophages in Sustaining Microbial Diversity and Biofouling Control
Dr. Hiren Joshi
14:00-14:25
(Re)defining the roles of viruses in microbiomes
Dr. Karthik Anantharaman
14:30-14:55
11:00 - 11:25 (GMT + 2)
Harnessing the power of Phages: revolutionizing aquaculture for sustainable growth
Dr. Justyna Andrysiak (Virtual)
15:00-15:25
Our clinical experience with bacteriophage therapy in India
Prof. Gopal Nath
15:30-15:55
12:00 - 12:25 (GMT + 2)
Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands (PICIs): What are they? What can they do?
Dr. Rodrigo Ibarra Chavez (Virtual)
Tea Break 16:00 - 16:25
Technical Session 7: Phages for Sustainable Agriculture
16:30-16:55
Application of bacteriophages for the control of bacterial diseases in plants
Prof. P. Palani
17:00-17:25
Challenges of effective commercialization of phage products for agricultural applications
Dr. Justyna Kowalska
Poster Session, Networking and Dinner
17:30 - 19:30
Day 3
September 30
Technical Session 8: Genomics, Bioinformatics tools and Artificial intelligence (AI) for phage research
08:00-08:25
19:30 - 19:55 (GMT - 7)
Overview of the bioinformatic toolkit and resources for phage ecogenomics
Dr. Simon Roux (Virtual)
08:30-08:55
13:00 - 13:25 (GMT + 10)
Principles and Guidelines for Building Biobank Databases
Jan Zheng (Virtual)
09:00-09:25
PhageCraft: From Sewage to Synthesis
Prof. Robert Edwards
Technical Session 9: Phages in action
09:30-09:55
From Patient to Advocate: Developing Phage Therapy in India
Pranav Johri
Tea Break 10:00 - 10:25
10:30-10:45
Genomics application on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr. Arpita Ghosh (Eurofins Genomics)
10:50-11:05
Potential Uses of Confocal Microscopy in Bacteriophage Research
Mr. Somenath Ghatak (Carl Ziess)
11:10-11:35
06:40-07:05 (GMT+1)
Long-read Viromics: Reveals Bacteriophages Are Modulators of Bacterial Diversity in the Cow Gut
Dr. Andrew Millard (Virtual)
11:40-11:55
High Throughput Full Length Microbial Sequencing with Nanopore Technology
Dr. Sridharan J. (Genotypic Pvt. Ltd.)
Closing Ceremony
12:00 - 12:45
Lunch 12:50 - 13:50